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• Important Online Safeguarding Information: HiCalculator

  Tue 17 Jan 2017

  Dear parents,

  It has been brought to our attention that some children may be downloading a secrecy App for photographs and videos, called ‘HiCalculator’.  The App appears and operates on a mobile device as a calculator, however, once a password has been entered children can store photographs or videos on the App as well as share them with others. This allows children to keep photographs and videos a secret.

  The App does not contain an age restriction and therefore can be accessed by anyone. You may wish to  monitor your child’s activities online, particularly if they are using an App specifically designed to hide items from view.

• Christmas for the Community

  Thu 22 Dec 2016

  This year our Key Stage 2 classes performed a very special carol concert for the elderly members of our community. An enjoyable afternoon was had by all which started with members of our PTA and Missionary Disciples serving drinks and light refreshments. Meriel Woodward from the Lalley Community Centre attended the event and gave a special talk on the wonderful work the centre does. Our visitors kindly made a donation to the charity, which will be added to our school contribution. This was followed by some exciting games of bingo called by Mrs Murphy and Mrs Prescott, with some amazing prize hampers! Finally the afternoon culminated with a wonderful carol service led by our key stage 2 pupils. We thoroughly enjoyed entertaining members of our community and sharing this special festive season with them!

  

• St Mary’s Christmas Bake Off

  Wed 21 Dec 2016

  This week we had our very our Christmas Bake off and we had entries that could rival creations made by Mary Berry herself! Our competitors were split into 3 different age categories; 3-5 years old, 6-8 years old and 9 – 11 years old. Our wonderful judges, who are local expert bakers themselves, had a very hard job finding a winner and runner up for each category. Winners received a voucher for Slattery’s and the runners up got some very special prizes too. Thank you to all who took part!

  

• Choir Christmas Performance

  Mon 19 Dec 2016

  Today the choir performed some wonderful Christmas carols and poems as part of a very special performance at The Humphrey Booth Resource Centre. We enjoyed spreading some Christmas cheer with our local community!

  

• St Mary’s enjoy a perfect pantomime!

  Tue 13 Dec 2016

  This morning all our children had a wonderful, festive treat with a production of Aladdin from Footlights Theatre Company. We all enjoyed booing the baddies, cheering for the goodies and joining in with a few familiar songs. Oh yes we did!

  

• Year 4 Collective Worship

  Wed 30 Nov 2016

  Today Year 4 spent time together discussing the Wednesday Word.  The children made their own Advent promises to help them during this special time.

  

• Dictionary Decisions

  Tue 29 Nov 2016

  Year 3 have been using dictionaries this week to locate words, learn how to spell them correctly, know their word class and also to find out definitions of words they are unsure of. This is a requirement of all children in Year 3.

  If you have a dictionary at home you could help your child by playing a game where you ask them to explain the meaning of a new word. Provide the children with the first three letters of the word if they are unsure and then give them a time limit to find it.

   

  New words for the class this week were queasy, obstruct, mime, reduce, adapt, xerox, vain, prepare and consequence.

  

• St Mary’s Hockey Team Runners-up League Champs

  Fri 25 Nov 2016

  Year 6 attended a sports tournament held at Swinton High to display their hockey skills.

   

  The children played ever so well and this was topped by winning the runners-up league. A great team performance by all the children.

• Basketball enthusiasts

  Fri 25 Nov 2016

  Year 6 competed in a sports tournament where they played against five different primary schools. They had a great time and displayed some great basketball skills and teamwork.

• Handball Champions

  Fri 25 Nov 2016

  Year 4 entered a sports tournament held at Swinton High and came away with the trophy.

   

  The children played as a team which was shown in them winning all their games resulting in taking the trophy home to St Mary’s.